Final Poster

This is my promotional album poster.
I decided to go with the same house theme as my digipak.
I think the style of my poster and digipak collaboratively complement my artist and her style with the cold blue background overlay representing the sombreness of her lyrics whilst the bright gold font goes with the title of the album as well as allowing the title and artists name to stand out quite.

digipak final draft

This is my final digipak draft. 

As you can see I have changed in quite a considerable amount from my original ideas. I found that because of the multiple shots where I am looking directly into the camera as well as a poor range in variety in terms of the types of shots my previous digipak drafts had I found that it made the digipak look amateur and incomplete.

Name Change

Due to the genre of our artists music being indie pop, she is not yet an extremely popular artist therefore trying to sell the album as self titled is quite difficult and unrealistic. Therefore we made the decision to change the artists name to Aaliyah-A and keep the album name as VIVID. This is more conventional as many indie pop artists either use a stage name thats still a name or play with their real name somehow.

Poster ideas

I am now in the process of designing my promotional album poster. I am currently playing around with two types of styles for my poster; the first being a very colourful idea following the theme of the album name 'vivid'. The image looks like a moment capture connoting some sort of a journey or adventure which is quite exciting and embraces the type of music the artist makes which is electric pop, overall giving it a very upbeat and fun feel.

On the other hand I have a more natural, raw poster edging more towards the actual type of music it is in terms of meaning. The black and white along with the facial expression on the artists face gives off a more neutral, vulnerable vibe connoting the emotion went into the making of this album.

DIGIPAK draft3

I have made many edits concerning my digipak taking  closer step to the completed, final edit.

I rearranged some pictures to create the illusion of a greater variety of shots as well as adding the boarders to give it a more clean look.

digipak update

As it's unconventional to have the same picture on deluxe and regular disks I've chosen a different picture that has the same background and colour scheme but gives another dimension to the disk. However both pictures are the same angle and distance, I think maybe choosing a picture thats a wide shot or mid shot may make it more affective.

Filming day - Southbank & Greenwich

Today we filmed in the southbank tunnel, famous for its walls of graffiti including work by Banksy. We took advantage of the luminous graffitied walls as well as the cool lights by doing maybe 180 shots from the ceiling back down to the artist. We did a few lip syncing shots as well as shots of the artist not performing for the camera to create a sense of reality and narrative in the video. We then headed to the Greenwich footpath tunnel, which unlike the Southbank tunnel is quite gloomy and plain finished with a ceiling of lights. On our way there we filmed short cute clips of the artist and her love interest to use as flashbacks of when they were together and then once at the tunnel filmed a rather awkward and intense shot of the two coming face to face inside the tunnel.
Overall it was a very successful day of shooting as we managed to film a vast amount as well as the shots we’d planned prior.